Identifying patients with opioid use disorder using International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes: Challenges and opportunities.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

International Classification of Diseases (ICD) diagnosis codes are often used in research to identify patients with opioid use disorder (OUD), but their accuracy for this purpose is not fully evaluated. This study describes application of ICD-10 diagnosis codes for opioid use, dependence and abuse from an electronic health record (EHR) data extraction using data from the clinics' OUD patient registries and clinician/staff EHR entries.

Design

Cross-sectional observational study.

Setting

Four rural primary care clinics in Washington and Idaho, USA.

Participants

307 patients.

Measurements

This study used three data sources from each clinic: (1) a limited dataset extracted from the EHR, (2) a clinic-based registry of patients with OUD and

SUBMITTER: Osterhage KP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10846664 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature